What's the difference between preacher and reacher?
Preacher
Definition:
(n.) One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
(n.) One who inculcates anything with earnestness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(2) Minutes after David Cameron joined the attack on Wednesday by claiming Khan was close to a south London cleric, Suliman Gani, who “supports IS [Islamic State]”, Team Zac circulated a dossier alleging Khan’s links with convicted terrorists, homophobes, antisemites and hate preachers.
(3) The KSF believed they had come to the attention of the FBI in March after threatening an armed protest outside a mosque in Wichita, the largest city in the state, against a visiting preacher they deemed an affiliate of the Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas.
(4) Cori Crider, a lawyer with Reprieve, said Mobley “spoke a couple of times” in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and preacher whom the Obama administration considered a senior figure within al-Qaida’s local affiliate.
(5) A Tory briefing note made clear that the banning orders, which can include denying access to the airwaves and to the net, would be targeted not just at so-called hate preachers but also those who sought to “disrupt the democratic process” and “undermine democracy”.
(6) The preacher's comments are subject to a police investigation following complaints.
(7) Friday's missile attack came two weeks after a US drone strike killed prominent American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a gifted Muslim preacher and savvy internet operator who became a powerful al-Qaida tool for recruiting in the West.
(8) We need to make sure that we’ve got a regime in Australia that’s modern and flexible.” News Corp reported that under the proposed counter-terrorism laws , radical preachers who encourage others to engage in extremist acts could be jailed for up to five years.
(9) Awlaki was a relative of Fahd al-Kusaa, once imprisoned for his involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole, and also a cousin of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Yemeni preacher who lectured some of the 11 September hijackers and was in contact with Nidal Hassan, the US army psychiatrist, in the months leading up to his massacre at Fort Hood.
(10) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
(11) But in the media storm that followed it was not the inflammatory preachers but the programme-makers who found themselves subject to an inquisition.
(12) The group began as a small Salafist sect based in north-eastern Nigeria led by a charismatic but crudely educated preacher named Mohammed Yusuf , who was killed in 2009.
(13) Salim Jabar, one of Libya's most popular television preachers, has demanded the women's team disband, saying it was against the strictures of Islam.
(14) Admittedly, it was not as bad as Miles' frankly incomprehensible hair, to say nothing about the self-harm-inducing scene in which they all "threw shapes" to the Manic Street Preachers, but relative improvement is not exactly a recommendation.
(15) His motto in recent days has been the words of US preacher Joyce Meyer: "You can't defeat Goliath with your mouth shut."
(16) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
(17) All that narrative of terrorism is about hate preachers who brainwashed X. I think it's much simpler than that.
(18) The first minister provoked a major political storm earlier this week when he first backed a born again preacher who denounced Islam as evil and the "spawn of the devil."
(19) The measure has been used recently against Christian street-preachers who were arguing that homosexuality was sinful, against a teenager who claimed Scientology was a dangerous cult and against an Oxford University student who told a mounted police officer his horse was gay.
(20) March 1995 The preacher issues a fatwa saying it is justified to both kill Muslims who renounce their faith and kill their families.
Reacher
Definition:
(n.) One who reaches.
(n.) An exaggeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now Deadline reports that Christopher McQuarrie , the screenwriter-turned-director who worked with the world's most famous scientologist on his recent film Jack Reacher , is likely to step in for part five.
(2) Deadline also reports that a sequel to this year's Jack Reacher, the big-screen adaptation of Lee Child's popular series of books that controversially starred Cruise in the title role, is in the works.
(3) • Mission: Impossible 5 chooses to accept Christmas 2015 release • Stuart Heritage: No Jack Reacher sequel?
(4) The five-day £4.96m debut compares with £2.79m for GI Joe: Retaliation from a couple of weeks ago, and a previews-inflated £3.58m opening for star Tom Cruise's previous effort Jack Reacher in late December.
(5) The first Jack Reacher film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starred Cruise as the eponymous ex-US army-policeman, opposite Rosamund Pike as a lawyer trying to save an army sniper from the death penalty.
(6) Jack Reacher opens with a scene in which an expert sniper shoots dead five people in Pittsburgh, where its premiere was due to be held.
(7) The sequel is reportedly to be based on the eighteenth and most recent Reacher novel, Never Go Back, in which Reacher's attempt to meet up with the commander of his old unit is thwarted when she is arrested.
(8) David's is called Skydance, and is arguably the more commercial, with recent offerings including World War Z , Star Trek Into Darkness and Jack Reacher .
(9) As well as All You Need Is Kill, he is due to star in sci-fi tale Oblivion in 2013 and will shortly be seen as former military policemen Jack Reacher in a film of the same name, based on Lee Child's successful series of novels.
(10) Reports suggest that a scene in which Cruise's character fires a semi-automatic weapon has been removed from promotional spots for Jack Reacher ahead of its Christmas Day release in the US.
(11) Meanwhile, footage of a scene in the new Tom Cruise action movie, Jack Reacher , has reportedly been excised from all publicity for the Christopher McQuarrie film.
(12) As a property, it benefited from significantly less pre-existing brand awareness than Jack Reacher, which is based on the popular crime fiction of Lee Child.
(13) Maximum C4 levels (2 to 8% of normal were reachered by day 73 and restored total C to 40% of normal.
(14) The kind of crime fiction consumed is disparate, as shown by the top two titles: 10th Anniversary (1) is part of the Women's Murder Club series – think Sex and the City , but with homicide not hanky-panky as the girls' shared interest – while Worth Dying For (2) is a macho novel featuring Lee Child's nomadic vigilante Jack Reacher.
(15) Studios Paramount and 20th Century Fox announced the cancellation of Saturday's US premieres for Jack Reacher and comedy Parental Guidance , starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, on Friday.
(16) Cruise would be taking on a third action franchise, with Mission: Impossible certain to get a fifth outing in the wake of Brad Bird-directed Ghost Protocol's $694m (£459m) box-office haul last year and his recent Jack Reacher film (a hearty $215m worldwide on a $60m budget) also set for a follow up.
(17) Cruise, 50, is due to return as master spy Ethan Hunt in M:I5, which is to be directed by Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie, who previously directed Cruise in the military-cop thriller Jack Reacher .
(18) Tom Cruise action thriller Jack Reacher is to get a long-mulled over sequel, according to Deadline .
(19) But if you know the name, it's likely from the credits of American films – Jack Reacher and Lincoln , Lee Daniels' The Paperboy and Daniels' new one, The Butler , which just topped an Oscar tipsters' chart of the key films of the 2013-14 awards season.
(20) The finer analysis revealed no differences in the reaching behaviour to objects and pictures of objects, even among the most active reachers.